Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones works for Bioversity International and is a Research Assistant within CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems' Ecosystem Services and Resilience core theme, working on ecosystem service management for improved livelihood and food security.

Bioversity International and partners work closely with local communities in Burkina Faso to tackle the dry season water constraints by supporting community-driven innovations that increase the equity and sustainability of reservoir management.

While satellites and aircrafts are increasingly being used to collect data on weather and climate, ground-based weather stations are important for providing long-term information on climate. One project is working to install FreeStations in the Volta Basin.

A working group, led by Bioversity International with funding from WLE, is working to understand how the UN Sustainable Development Goals can be leveraged for conservation and human well-being by identifying links between ecosystem services and achieving SDG goals.

Science on the Pulse: what is the best way to navigate through the mountain of publications that emerged from 2014 to find the gems that should absolutely be on your reading list? For those looking to brush up on their knowledge on ecosystem services and resilience, we're sharing the top ten reads as identified by a polling of the ESR Working Group.

Over the last two decades, “ecosystem services” have taken center stage in the field of conservation as a way of emphasizing that protecting nature should be about sustaining and enhancing the benefits nature provides to people. But how do we do this in practice and achieve both conservation and development goals? Can WLE rise to the challenge?